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Revisiting Thelma Houston's Dancefloor Classic - A Nostalgic Spin on - You Used To Hold Me So Tight

Today thanks to Brokli - I am walking into the auditory time machine, I dropped the needle on Thelma Houston’s “You Used To Hold Me So Tight,” and was instantly teleported back to the golden era of dancefloor glitter and groove. There's a certain magic in rediscovering a tune that's been etched into the synapses of your memory—like a ghost of disco past, long forgotten, now summoned forth in shimmering apparition. Listening to it now, decades removed from the pulsating heat of '80s clubland, the experience is akin to unearthing a time capsule buried beneath layers of musical evolution. The track is a vibrant portal, faint yet vivid, that transports me back to the verge of adulthood—my formative teens where each beat in that bass line felt like it was dictating the rhythm of life itself. Thelma Houston's powerhouse delivery on “You Used To Hold Me So Tight” has lost none of its potency. Her voice sails over the production with a clarity that cuts through the years, still